A journey through millennia.

Posted on Saturday February 18th, 2023 @ 3:11pm by Lieutenant Steven Edgeware

Mission: The Lonely
Location: Deep space.
Timeline: Five hundred thousand years ago.

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-The home-world of the Derelict-
-Five hundred thousand years ago.-


Their home world had once been a paradise. But years of mindless industrialisation had ruined the atmosphere. Now even the life giving rains had turned against them. Poisoned by the pollutant’s in the atmosphere. They where now destroying the soil which meant poor to no plant growth. The planetary leaders came to the shocking realisation. Their mother world could no longer sustain their race. The planet’s scientists began working on a solution. Many years they worked to save the mother world. But finally they came to the sad conclusion. A new planet had to be found and colonised. So construction began on a huge colonisation vessel. While this built the scientists began searching the havens for a new world.

Years passed. The population of the planet began to fall dangerously low.Then the day of celebration came. For not only was the colonisation vessel completed. But a new world was discovered. It was calculated that the journey would take a hundred thousand years. But the surviving population would be in suspended animation. While the crew slept the computer would control the ship. With the last of their civilisation at the mercy of this machine. The scientists decided to make it sentient. Being a telepathic race their leader melded his consciousness to the AI on the ship. Now the computer was sentient.So with tears in their eyes. What remained of the civilisation boarded the vessel and left their dying world for good.

The journey took as calculated a hundred years. During that journey the ships computer guided the vessel onwards. To pass the time it would use its telepathic link to contact the sleeping colonists. Even though their body’s slept their minds were still active. It built up quite a friendship with them. Then the day of joy arrived. The planet that had taken a hundred years to travel to was within grasp. The colonists began to awaken.

However the scientists had made a mistake. The new planet was not uninhabited. But the colonist leaders were hopeful that the inhabitants of the new world. Where good people and would be only to happy to allow the colonists to make a home on their world. At first talks seemed to go well. But then the leaders of the planet discovered why the colonists had left their world. They did want these new people making their planet an uninhabitable husk. So things turned hostile very quickly.

After a vicious battle the surviving colonists returned to the ship and fled planet. The colony ships power systems had been damage by the inhabitants of the planet . Who fired a barrage of missiles as they fled the atmosphere. This meant the remaining aliens did not have enough power. To use their suspended animation chambers. They had a limited amount of food. But a hydroponic bay was built and using fresh fruits and vegetables. Gathered on the planet before things turned soured. They were able to grow their own food. Plus they found a way to create moisture and turn it into drinking water. A way was found to gather power from the natural radiation in the very space around them.Unfortunately it still would not be enough to power the sleeping chambers.But there was still hope that they could survive until a new planet could be found.

But space is vast and lives are short. If their numbers had been much higher. Then they may of made it to the next possible planet. But soon the last of the colonists died of old age before a new home could be reached.

The AI was alone.

For thousands of years the colony ship now a derelict floated through space. In all that time the AI mourned the loss of its children. It blamed itself for what happened. As penance for this it vowed to float in space aware instead of shutting down. But as millennium passed even the power system weakened. Soon the AI was barely conscious. Then one day something glorious happened. A strange probe crashed into the derelict. Its power fed into the energy system of the derelict. Awaking the ancient AI . Before all the energy was drained from this strange object. All its data was downloaded into the ancient AI’s memory core.

It took a while to learn the objects strange language. Soon it began to understand words like Federation , Disappearance and Oberon. Whoever these children of the Federation were. They were trying to help the children of the Oberon. Seek their home a planet called Deep Space Three. Much like the AI had done with the colonists. This planet they seeked resembled the derelict. It could be there home! It imagined once again having life on board. Two way conversations again. Plus they would never leave because this was very much like this Deep Space Three planet.

So it sent this children of the Federation a message. A bit of naughty subterfuge, pretending to be this Deep Space Three planet. But it needed companionship after thousands of years.

Soon the children of the Oberon would be here.

Soon.

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Lieutenant Steven Edgeware
Second Officer/Chief Science Officer
USS Oberon




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